Kyle Beachy

Gebundenes Buch

The Most Fun Thing

Dispatches from a Skateboard Life

Beschreibung

Perfect for fans of Barbarian Days, this memoir in essays follows one man's decade-long quest to uncover the hidden meaning of skateboarding, and explores how this search led unexpectedly to insights on marriage, love, loss, American invention, and growing old.

Autor

Kyle Beachy's first novel, The Slide (Dial Press, 2009), won The Chicago Reader's Best Book by a Chicago Author reader's choice award for the year. His short fiction has appeared in journals including Fanzine, Pank, Hobart, Juked, The Collagist, 5 Chapters, and others.His writing on skateboarding has appeared in The Point, The American Reader, The Chicagoan, Free Skateboard Magazine (UK & Europe), The Skateboard Mag (US), Jenkem, Deadspin, and The Classical. He teaches at Roosevelt University in Chicago and is a co-host on the skateboarding podcast Vent City with pro skater Ryan Lay and others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grand Central Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 207mm x 143mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9781538754115
• ISBN-10: 1538754118
• Artikelnr.: 60899552